690347 - Flex box grows too much if 'white-space: nowrap' is used

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jason Parekh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.21 Safari/535.2

Steps to reproduce:

http://jsfiddle.net/6F7KA/3/

A parent that is 'display: -moz-box'.  Two children, the left is '-moz-box-flex: 1' and the right is fixed width.  I never want the parent to be scrollable, regardless of the contents of the left child.

If I add 'white-space: nowrap' to the left child and set its text to something really long, the parent will scroll and my right child will get pushed into the scrollable area.


Actual results:

'white-space: nowrap' causes the flexed box to grow beyond its constraints.


Expected results:

The flexed box should have stayed within its constraints and resorted to overflow (which would have hidden).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

-moz-box elements do not normally overflow.  flex is added to the default width, which is based on their contents.

So I believe this is invalid as filed....